Causing a fire

[Zacherof]

If your leaking fuel or oil, could enemy rounds ignite said items? Other day I was in a 38 and I had a fuel leak, and I was attacking a b5n. The gunner landed a few rounds on me and suddenly I was on fire. 

[titanic3]

All fires in AH is fuel fire (which was pretty rare in real life). Engine fires aren't modeled.

[Zacherof]

So would rounds passing thru my leaking fuel cause it to ignite? Cause that's what it looked like.

[Chalenge]

During the Blacksheep tour of duty (Pappy Boyington's I mean) one of the squadron members tested the ammunition and discovered that against the Japanese aircraft the incendiary ammunition had a much higher chance of starting an aircraft fire. The .50 incendiary at the time was actually an AP round with an incendiary component. Tracer rounds were included in their belts to indicate their firing line, but it was the incendiary bullets that actually lit the fires. And no, they were not lighting the vapor trail and I doubt that's what happened to you either. If you were firing your guns at the same time it is very likely you just did not hear the bullet that set you on fire.

[Lusche]

So would rounds passing thru my leaking fuel cause it to ignite? Cause that's what it looked like.

The rounds hitting your fuel tanks again are the ones turning your plane into a ball of fire, not the ones passing through the trail of fuel you are dragging.

[Zacherof]

This goes to prove that ah veterans are always learning. Are the incidary rounds from jap planes modeled in game?

[Karnak]

This goes to prove that ah veterans are always learning. Are the incidary rounds from jap planes modeled in game?

All rounds in AH are hybrid rounds of what that gun fired.  If the Japanese used incendiary rounds then they would be part of the hybrid.

[bozon]

All fires in AH is fuel fire (which was pretty rare in real life). Engine fires aren't modeled.

I dont think that is correct. Fires always come out of the engines and are started when you hit the engines. Very clearly the case when lighting up multi-engine planes.

[titanic3]

I dont think that is correct. Fires always come out of the engines and are started when you hit the engines. Very clearly the case when lighting up multi-engine planes.

Look at the damage list when you get a fire. It's listed as fuel tank damage.

[skorpx1]

This goes to prove that ah veterans are always learning. Are the incidary rounds from jap planes modeled in game?

So far we only have AP and HE rounds in game.

[bozon]

Look at the damage list when you get a fire. It's listed as fuel tank damage.

hmm.. I never looked at the damage list when burning. There usually are fuel tanks near the engine, so perhaps some hits in the engine area register damage to the fuel tanks as well.

[Zacherof]

Interesting. When I hunt 24's, engine hits end in fires

[titanic3]

Interesting. When I hunt 24's, engine hits end in fires

hmm.. I never looked at the damage list when burning. There usually are fuel tanks near the engine, so perhaps some hits in the engine area register damage to the fuel tanks as well.

Engines get their fuel from somewhere right?

If you look really close, B24s fires originate from the spacing between the engines and at the wing root. Fuel tanks. On fighters, most fires originate from the belly.